Different Page/Posts Formats

Feeling Responsive supports you with different templates for your content. These are the actual page/post formats:

Page/Post

The page/post format has no sidebar by default, its content is centered and beneath the content the visitor gets some metadata like categories, tags, date and author if provided via data in front matter of the post.

use in front matter via: layout: page

Page/Post with a left or right sidebar

If you want to show the sidebar, just enter sidebar: left or sidebar: right in front matter, and whoops, there it is! To customize the content of the sidebar, open _includes/sidebar.

Page/Post with or without metadata

If you want to show metadata like categories, tags and date at the end of the page, just enter show_meta: true. It’s on by default. You can change it via _config.yml. To turn of metadata just enter – yes, you guessed right – show_meta: false.

Style your content with

Feeling Responsive offers lots of possibilities to style your articles. You can style your content in different ways. There are elements like subheadlines, feature images, header images, homepage images, meta data like categories and tags and many more.

subheadlines

If you need a subheadline for an article, just define a subheadline in front matter like this:

subheadline: "Subheadline"

Quotes

Quotes mix it up a little bit, if you write long articles. So use quotes:

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain

Responsive Videos

Code to use for flexible videos

Images: Title, Thumbnails, Homepage

There are several types of images you can define via front matter. If you want to change the images used in the header have a look at Style your Header.

Title Images

image:
title: image.jpg

Thumbnails

Thumbnails are used on archive pages like the blog index. They have a size of 150x150 pixels. Define them in front matter like this:

image:
thumb: thumbnail_image.jpg

Homepage Image

If you want to feature an article on the homepage with a huge image, then use the homepage image with a width of 970 pixels. If no homepage image is defined Feeling Responsive writes instead New Blog Articles over the blog entries. Define the homepage image like this:

image:
homepage: header_homepage_13.jpg

Captions with URL

Sometimes you want to give credit to the creator of your images, maybe with a link. Especially when you use Creative Commons-images like I do for this website. Just add the following front matter and Feeling Responsive does the rest:

Define all images for an article

Create a Table of Contents

With the Kramdown parser for Markdown you can render a table of contents for your documents. Just insert the following HTML in your post before the actual content. More information on »Automatic ›Table of Contents‹ Generation«.

Foundation panel version

Breadcrumbs

Includes

Includes can be very helpful to spice up your content. You can use includes in your Markdown-files with ease: Just call them with some Liquid code.

list-posts.html

The list-posts.html-include is a loop to list posts. It’s a helper to add some additional content fast and easy. You can use it in individual posts for example. Which parameters you use, depends on you.

Possible parameter for the loop:

entries › define the number of entries to show

offset › define the offset (number of entries to skip before displaying the first one)

category › define only one category to display according entries

The loop looks like this when you use all parameters. Single parameters are possible of course.

{%includelist-postsentries='3'offset='1'category='design'%}

next-previous-post-in-category.html

This include creates a next/previous link to a post of the same category using the first categories-variable in front matter.

{%includenext-previous-post-in-category%}

improve_content

If your content is on Jekyll you can use this include to automatically generate a »Edit on GitHub Link« to give people a possibility to improve your content. Got the idea from Ben Balters Blog.

{%include_improve_content.html%}

list-collection

This include lets you loop through a collection to list all entries in that collection. If you set »published: false« in front matter of a collection page the page gots filtered out via unless. The following example loops through a collection called wordpress.

{%includelist-collectioncollection='wordpress'%}

alert – Embed an alert in your content

This include lets you easily display an alert. To use the include no .html ending is necessary. You can use five different kinds of alerts: warning, info, success, alert and text.

Javascript/Foundation modules

Feeling Responsive uses the foundation framework and some of its javascript components. I reduced the modules, to decrease page load and make the theme faster.

I only added one other javascript-module: backstretch by Scott Robbin. These modules are currently used by the theme and included in javascript.min.js. There is also a non-minified version, if you want to take a closer look: javascript.js.